Duke's Corner Java Podcast with Richard Fichtner as he previews his upcoming session at JavaOne in March and offers his perspective on what makes JavaOne special! Go to javaone.com and register and we'll see you there!

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Richard, Richard Fischner from Germany. How are you doing, man? Welcome to Duke's Corner.

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Hey, Jim, how are you doing?

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I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Hey, listen, Java 1 is coming up in Silicon Valley in March, March 18th through 20th, and I see you on the schedule, so obviously you're going to be there. What are you talking about?

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I'm going to be talking about Apache Maven. That's the build system basically everybody uses in the Java space, and there's a lot of quirks around Maven. and there's a best practice talk so uh if you're using maven check it out there is

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a lot of things to learn that that we come across the last 15 years so uh yeah something you can take home and use in your day-to-day life excellent excellent

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well i'll look forward to that and i'll be there i'm gonna be the photographer at the conference so I'll shoot your session and we'll hang out a little bit. So, Richard, I got one final question for you before we go. I'm just talking to developers asking about Java 1, like the culture of Java 1, so why?

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Why should a developer go to Java 1? What makes Java 1 special?

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So JAW1 is very special for me and I think for a lot of other people because I didn't miss a JAW1 since 2012. So every JAW1 there was, I was there. And I kept coming back because I love the spirit there, sucking up some of this Silicon Valley vibe and talking to all the great people

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behind this great technology that makes a living for me and a lot of people. And so, yeah. This is just the way to connect with tech and also with the people behind the tech. So this really speaks to me.

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Excellent. Excellent. Well, I look forward to seeing you there. And anything, any final words before we go?

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Yeah. Come to Java 1. Join us in the Silicon Valley and have some fun. Let's talk. Let's hang and talk some sweet Java tech.

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